On a sunny May afternoon in 1960, Gover­nor Bert T. Combs stood on the grounds of Fort Knox, dedicating a new grave marker ...

The artist chose to depict the iconic 16th President as he was as a young lawyer working in small towns around Illinois.

A new exhibit at Wrightwood 659 in Lincoln Park called "The First Homosexuals" explores LGBTQ history and identity through ...

WGLT talks to Raymond McKoski, the author of a new biography of David Davis, whose mansion and historic site in Bloomington ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence for infamous Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, abruptly ...

The film chronicles the early life of Abraham Lincoln, born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky. It highlights his family's struggles during their westward migration, including the death of his ...

Ranging from boyhood scrawlings to the gloves he wore on the night of his assassination, the nearly 150 objects in the “Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln ...

Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln” features items from the Lincoln Presidential Foundation, dating from the president’s early life through his death. All pieces came to the ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham ... that Lincoln was irredeemably unattractive. When he visited New York in February 1860 to deliver at the Cooper Union the most important speech of his life ...

A narrative feature exploring Abraham Lincoln’s personal life and queer legacy has landed ... friends since we were teenagers, shared an early draft of their original play in 2019,” Holder ...

By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter A narrative feature exploring Abraham Lincoln’s personal life and queer legacy ... shared an early draft of their original play in 2019,” Holder ...

"IMPORTANT," reads the ominous headline on the Herald's first early morning edition. "Assassination of President Lincoln. The President Shot at the Theatre Last Evening. Secretary Seward Daggered ...